Saint-Étienne is captured during the morning, the Fouillouse dam having yielded during the night after offering resistance.

The Germans step up their efforts in the Rhône valley, where their forward units reach the outskirts of Tournon. Aix-les-Banis is captured. Communications along the northern Alpine front now appear to be threatened. After failing to cross the Isère at Voreppe, the Germans try to cut their way through to Chambéry farther northeastward by storming the village of Les Échelles. This is defended by two companies, one belonging to the 25th Senegalese, the other to the 215th Infantry.

These two companies defend the approaches to the village with great skill, holding out all day though considerably outnumbered, and disputing every inch of ground. Late in the day the town is outflanked and the lines of retreat are blocked. Preceded by a bugler and displaying a sheet as a flag of truce, the mayor, M. Viard, goes out to meet the Germans. With him are two local inhabitants, MM de vaulxerre and Vrigny.

Col von Marwitz is so impressed with the stand made by this handful of soldiers that he allows them to fall back. At 8:20pm the two French companies, still bearing arms, carry out an orderly evacuation of Les Échelles.

On the right bank of the Rhône the Germans reach Andance. An attack is launched in the early hours of the morning. This sector is held by a brigade of Spahis under Col Jouffrault. The 6th Algerian Spahis defend the outskirts of the town, while 8 miles farther on the 4th Moroccan Spahis bar the road to Le Puy. This brigade goes on fighting until night fall, ceasing fire about 10pm only when they run out of ammunition.

On the Alpine front the French positions are still intact on both northern and eastern flanks.

At 9pm the French High Command receives the message announcing the cessation of hostilities on all fronts. It is immediately communicated to subordinate authorities. The hour given for the cease-fire is 12:35am, French Summer Time.

At 1pm Gen Olry gives the following figures for the operations on the Alpine front:

Of the thirty-two divisions in the Italian army, nineteen were wholly or partly engaged against the outposts - and in a few cases the main elements - of our six divisions.

We were outnumbered seven to one in Tarentaise, four to one in Maurienne, three to one in Briançonnais, twelve to one in Queytas, nine to one in Ubaye, six to one in Tinée, seven to one in L'Aution and Sospel, and four to one in Menton.

Our adversary only made contact with, or approached, our main position in Tarentaise and near Menton. All our fortified advance posts held out, even when encircled...